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Brewer: The Ale Apothecary
Style: Sour / Wild Beer - Flavored
Alcohol Content: 11%
Seasonal: No
Description:
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The Ale Apothecary Sahati
Brewer: The Ale Apothecary
Style: Sour / Wild Beer - Flavored
Alcohol Content: 11%
Seasonal: No
Description:
10-12% Mixed Fermentation Ale Brewed in Spruce
Serve at 55 degrees
SAHATI is our interpretation of traditional Finnish sahti. Starting with a 200-year old Engelmann spruce tree felled on brewery property, we created our own kuurna (an ancient Scandinavian lauter tun) to separate the wort from the grain during brewing. The bottom of the kuurna is layered with spruce branches; the needles act as a natural filter and impart resinous oils into the wort. The hollowed-out trunk of the tree also contributes spruce essence and structure from the raw wood. The beer is made of barley & rye malts along with a sparing addition of Goschie Farms Cascade hops and is brewed just a few times per year.
SAHATI is in many ways the very definition of The Ale Apothecary, where complex flavors arrive from the very methods used for production…the result is the process impacts the flavor profile at least as much as the ingredients themselves.
Batch Mar 08 2018: 9.29% ABV
Wild Fermentation Ale Brewed with Spruce Needles & Honey, Aged in Wine Barrels.
Our spectacle ale, inspired by traditional Finnish Sahati but brewed with typical American disregard for such things.
Mashed overnight in an oak vat, Sahati is made of Mecca Grade Vanora and Rimrock rye malts, aged Goschie Farms Cascade hops, water from our Skyliner aquifer, and microbes & spruce boughs from our surrounding forest.
Open fermentation occurs in wooden vats prior to aging in Oregon pinot noir barrels from Domaine Drouhin. Over a year later, Sahati is transferred to a large barrel with fresh spruce boughs prior to bottle fermentation with Oregon honey.
Bottles are aged 6 months minimum in our cellar prior to release.
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